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Music Quotes
Quotes on music and creative calling.
These quotes describe music as near-constant background for some, and as a true calling for others - one line simply states a feeling of being destined for it. A few discuss resisting one narrow sound in favor of exploring many styles. Related reading includes Funny Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are doing music videos through the '90s, which I did, and the 2000s, you were put in the position, really, as an independent filmmaker. You were being financed by a major record company or a minor record company or whatever.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
- High Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do much more to it. But Saint-Luc wrote very simple baroque music, and so if you do not embellish it, it just falls apart. It's way too simple.
- Marginalized
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful than others, but it wasn't premeditated.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you see the same familiar faces, it's nice when you get a chance to play with the same musicians. You start to develop this shorthand so everybody knows where you're at and where you're going, but then again, there are always surprises. But the more people are comfortable with the material, the more free you can be with the music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020